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Testament to it's appeal is when it's used by businesses to promote their ice creams/slushies.


Great use of typing in the editor, e.g., I like how it knows the references to template sprites so it can highlight the errors when calling functions with incorrect arguments.


Thanks! I put a lot of effort into the typing and getting the editor autocomplete to feel right. Happy to hear it shows :)


Recently chrome started asking for permission to use MIDI, when before it did not. So lots of existing sites won't tell you that they will request MIDI, which is what most sites that request the webcam do for good UX.


I suppose it could be used to fingerprint a user.


Been using qimv instead of eog for a while now and love it, takes me back to the days of picasa which was the first time I ever had photos load _fast_.


Have an extension on the chrome store too and receive these emails regularly. Promising cash to turn your extension into malware. Mine is a small, specific project that took a weekend or so of work, so I'm sure others in the same position would be tempted to take them up.


Did a similar thing with engraver software (which had a parallel port hardware serial key dongle that DOSBox allowed access to) and a dBASE IV program at a client's factory. Amazing piece of emulation that enables "ancient" code to run forever in small businesses around the world.


I use this [1] HDMI Cable Extension which allows you to use and HDMI cable between them. Works perfectly.

[1] https://www.tindie.com/products/freto/pi-camera-hdmi-cable-e...


As an addition, you can make any window translucent/transparent in X11 (running with a composite manager) using transset-df, e.g.,

  # Lets you click on a window and sets it's alpha to half
  $ transset-df 0.5
One usually gets annoyed with not being able to read their terminal properly after a while though.


Yes, this is different from native terminal implementations in that it makes the entire window content transparent, including the text, vs just the background.


Ah that is a cool way of checking where you are - very cool.

This app came mainly from when we were students (now we are self-employed so it's a similar scenario) and had a similar set up where had to go to our basement (where our computers were) and turn off a similar app there.

However, we soon just learnt to turn it off and go back to bed as there was no penalty for doing so.

So by making it be at a place of work/study/exercise that isn't your home, it means you have to really out get of bed to defeat it.

It's all about finding something that works for you.


Hmm maybe it should come with a tweeting from the grave warning...


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